Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758536Ab2FTX20 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:28:26 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:42747 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754698Ab2FTX2Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:28:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4FE25C7E.9030109@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:27:58 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov CC: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Peter Zijlstra , "Yu, Fenghua" , X86-ML , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Andreas Herrmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system References: <1340121811-4477-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> <1340121811-4477-3-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> <3E5A0FA7E9CA944F9D5414FEC6C7122007737623@ORSMSX105.amr.corp.intel.com> <20120619232857.GH5996@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <1340182778.21745.75.camel@twins> <20120620230856.GA4223@khazad-dum.debian.net> <4FE2585A.3000505@zytor.com> <20120620232359.GD2016@aftab.osrc.amd.com> In-Reply-To: <20120620232359.GD2016@aftab.osrc.amd.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 741 Lines: 19 On 06/20/2012 04:23 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 04:10:18PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> I'm wondering about the new format... it seems to potentially make it >> harder to do the proper retaining of compatible CPU microcodes. > > .. and if you don't split the blob, you have all the ucode patches in > one package. So are there any advantages in splitting the single blob? > Not that I know of. IMO the driver can, and should, be the one doing the pruning. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/